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The Southern Baptist church where 21-year-old mass shooting suspect Robert Aaron Long got baptized twice is now grieving for his victims and the families impacted by his deadly shooting rampage at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead Tuesday, including six Asian women.
Jerry Dockery, the lead teaching elder at the Crabapple First Baptist Church in Milton, Georgia, where Long worshiped with his family, prayed on Sunday that God would use his church to have leaders in various areas of the public and private sector “drawn toward you.”
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Replay Video UP NEXT Robert Aaron Long was charged with four counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault in the attacks in Cherokee County, according to the sheriff’s office there. The Atlanta police said later Wednesday afternoon that he was also charged with four counts of homicide in the killings in that city. Six Asian women died in the attacks on Tuesday, prompting widespread concern that the killings could be the latest in a surge of hate crimes against Asian Americans.
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From CNN’s Amanda Watts
The Atlanta Police Department s Homicide Unit has charged Robert Long, the 21 year-old accused of killing several people in Georgia, with four counts of murder.
These are in addition to earlier charges from the Cherokee County Sheriff s Office that include “four counts of Murder and one count of Aggravated Assault and has no bond,” the CCSO said in a Wednesday statement.
In total, Long faces eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault for the incidents.
He is currently detained at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center and it is anticipated that he will face a judge tomorrow.